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By the time Dark Shadows gets to the opening credits, it is already Tim Burton's best film since Ed Wood , but then I've always had a soft spot for the Moody Blues' "Nights in White Satin." Tim Burton's best film since Ed Wood By PETER KEOUGH | May 11, 2012

In keeping with the winter that never was, summer comes early this year — on movie screens, at least, if not meteorologically — with the big blockbusters that usually wait until Memorial Day now appearing in March. Springboard to summer By PETER KEOUGH | March 02, 2012

It's neat seeing Depp, more than a decade after his balding Raoul Duke in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas , as the younger Hunter S. Thompson, softening mannerisms later made brittle with cocaine, even if the performance is all surface. Depp as the younger Hunter S. Thompson By ANN LEWINSON | October 28, 2011

It's been four years since the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy ended, and Jerry Bruckheimer hasn't produced a hit in that time — which is the sole reason On Stranger Tides is beaching itself in theaters now. By BRETT MICHEL | May 27, 2011

Roger Deakins (True Grit) may have just lost the Academy Award for a criminal ninth time, but his talent as a cinematographer is one of the secret weapons in the first CG movie from live-action director Gore Verbinski (the Pirates of the Caribbean trilog Best of all? It’s not in 3D! By BRETT MICHEL | March 04, 2011

Roger Deakins (True Grit) may have just lost the Academy Award for a criminal ninth time, but his talent as a cinematographer is one of the secret weapons in the first CG movie from live-action director Gore Verbinski (the Pirates of the Caribbean trilo Brilliant animation...and it's not in 3D! By BRETT MICHEL | March 04, 2011

This might be as silly as Salt , the previous film in which Angelina Jolie was cast as a smirking beauty with a mysterious identity, but it's not as entertaining. Depp and Jolie are no Grant and Hepburn By PETER KEOUGH | December 17, 2010

With its low crime rate and socialized everything, Sweden doesn’t seem very noirish compared with, say, LA. Then again, much of the country spends the entire winter without sunlight. Stieg Larsson’s Girl is stinging Swedish noir By PETER KEOUGH | May 28, 2010

It’s been nearly 40 years since the death of Jim Morrison, but the surviving members of the Doors, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger and percussionist John Densmore have kept soldiering on, playing in various reformations of the ground-br The return of the Lizard King, sort of By TOM MEEK | April 09, 2010

At the tail end of February, for the second consecutive year, I (barely) escaped a late-winter hurricane to enter a Midwestern oasis of grass-fed beef, cheap cigarettes, Johnny Depp impersonators, and some of the finest documentaries you might just see t Getting a jump on the year in documentaries at True/False By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | April 02, 2010

The gangster movie ruled Depression-era cinema — and that might be cause for concern about our present economic difficulties should the genre make a comeback. Michael Mann's reheated crime waive By PETER KEOUGH | July 03, 2009

In anticipation of the July 1 release of Michael Mann's Public Enemies with Johnny Depp as John Dillinger, and as part of its week-long "Classic Gangsters" series, the Brattle is screening two rarely seen films this Sunday: John Milius's 1973 Dilling Dillinger and Manhattan Melodrama By STEVE VINEBERG | June 19, 2009

"Ladies and gentlemen," a cheerful female voice informs the Huntington Theatre audience, "the Caribbean Light Opera Society is proud to present Pirates! (Or, Gilbert and Sullivan Plunder'd)." The governor, she continues, wants to assure us that there is The Huntington plunders G&S! By JEFFREY GANTZ | May 29, 2009

Apparently, I'm one of those artist-types. Except it's not called "artist" anymore. That term is too, well ... artsy-fartsy. It doesn't adequately convey my critical importance to society. The creative economy By AL DIAMON | May 01, 2009

What does it say about America that marijuana movies are a hot genre right now, perhaps hotter even than in the heyday of Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong’s 1978 Up in Smoke ? Does a surge of stoner movies mean America is going to pot? By PETER KEOUGH | August 13, 2008